Improvement in revolving fire-arms



FREEMAN \V. HOOD, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HOODFIRE-ARMS COMPANY, OF SAMEVPLAOE."

IMPROVEMENT in REVOLVING Fina-Anlaws.v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,192, dated February23, 1875 applicationfiled December 9, 1874.

To an whom it may concern: Be it known that I, FREEMAN Norwich, in thecounty of New London-and State of Connecticut, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Fire-Arms termed Revolvers, and do hereby'declarethe same to be fully described in the following specification, andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of whicha p v Figure 1 is aside elevation, and Fig-2 a longitudinal section, of a revolver providedwith my invention. Fig. 3 is a side view of the magazine pivot-pin. vInearryin g outmy improvement, I combine with the stock and rotarycylinder or magazine a-mechanism to bear against the front end of themagazine, with friction sufllcientto maintain in alignment with thebarrel any of 'the bores or chambers of the magazine, preparatory to andduring discharge of the load of such chamber, such mechanism as shownbeing the magazine pivot-pin, retainer, or latch, so constructed andapplied as to be borne, by the actuating-spring of such latch, againstthe said front end of the magazine, the retainer or latch being thusmade to perform two functions, viz., that of holding the pin in placeinthe stock, and that of a friction-brake to the magazine.

' By the use of such a friction mechanism or brake, I am enabled todispense with the usual spring retaining-pawl and series ofrecessesarranged in the rearend of the magazine,-and thus materiallycheapen the construction of the fire arm, and obtain advantage in otherrespects.

In the the stock; and O, the magazinamade and ar-'. ranged as is usualin I revolvers, except that W. H001), of

draw1ngs;A denotesthe barrel; B,

the rear end of the magazine is without any recesses or teeth to operatewith a retainingpawl, though having the ordinary ratchet a, for theimpeding-pawl b to act with in efl'ectin g the intermittent rotation ofthe magazine.

. rillhe pivot-pin of the magazine is shown at D,

it being provided with a groove, 0, going lat erallywaround it, toreceive the holding projection of the lever-latch E, such latch beinggenerally of the common form, and provided, as usual, with anactuating-spring, d. The latch, arranged in the stock and in front ofthe magazine, turns freely on a pivot, e, and has an auxiliary head orprojection, f, to' bear directly a \ainst the magazine;

as to bear against the magazine, the object of my invention being toha\-'ethe said latch perform. the-two functions, as hereinbefore stated.To this end, the groove in the piyotpin should be deep enough toproperly receiveglthe latch without it bearing upon thliiibotto'm of thegroove, so as to prevent it tithe latch) from suitably pressing againstthe magazine.

I do not claim, in coinbinati'on ..\vith the stock and magazine, and-itspivot-finer a revolver, alatch ormechanism operating simply to hold thepivot-pin in place in the stock. -I'claim I In combination withthe'rotary magazine and its pivot-pin ofla revolver, a mechanism orlatch, E, substantially-as described,. 'to-hold the pin in place andoperate as africtionbrake to themagazine, all as specified.

FREEMAN w. H0on. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

i J It. Snow.

The latch may be otherwise constructed so

